This book is for parents who have raised children and youth with extremely challenging behaviors and who now seek ways to recover from the years of unrelenting stress. This isn't a book about how you should have raised your child. It isn't a book that blames your child, or you. The purpose of this book is to validate what you are experiencing now.

Brenda McCreight, Ph.D., is a therapist, author, and consultant specializing in services for adoptive and foster families dealing with challenges such as FASD, ADHD, conduct disorder, attachment disorder, developmental delays, and cognitive impairment. Brenda is the author of "Recognizing and Managing Children with Fetal Alcohol/Syndrome" published by the Child Welfare League of America, and of "Parenting Your Older Adopted Child" published by New Harbinger Publications and "Eden's Secret Journal: The Story of an Older Child Adoption" published by Adoption Press and "Help I've Been Adopted" by Tapestry Books. Brenda sees clients at her office in Nanaimo, British Columbia and she provides distance parent coaching by phone and by email. Most importantly, she is the mother of fourteen children and has seven grandchildren. She can be contacted through her web site at http://www.theadoptioncounselor.com